In the Indigenous book "The Good Luck Cat" we read about a good luck, striped cat named Woogie. The book tells us how Woogie has brought her owner luck. The book also describes how Woogie has dangerously exhausted her nine cat lives.

This is a book about about the relationship between a young girl and her cat . It is believed that some cats are good luck, when you pet them, good things happen. Woogie is one of those cats. But as Woogie gets into one mishap after another, everyone starts to worry. Can a good luck cat's good luck run out?

Celebrates the special •A modern Native American story from a member of the Muskogee-Creek tribe ( )

I would use this book as an interactive read aloud for 3rd grade because it is not that long of a book, it has good illustrations, and the students would enjoy reading about the cat. I would use it as an interactive read aloud because the illustrations are large enough that all the students could see and there is not any little detail that has to be looked for throughout the book.

Woogie the cat has a best friend that worries about her. In this story, Woogie uses up her nine lives and then some but if she survives her brushes with death, she has a warm welcome waiting for her when she gets home.

I liked this book for several different reasons. First I liked the author’s use of imagery to describe the cat, saying she “purrs as if she has a drum near her heart“ or “ looked like a soggy washrag” Another thing I enjoyed about this book was how the writing was structured. The majority of the book goes in sequence as to how this cat lost the first eight of its nine lives. This story structure made it easy to understand the flow of the passage so every time we turned the page we would figure out how the cat lost it’s nth life. My favorite part of the book however is the use of illustrations. They are drawn with such wonderful detail that they look like they are photographs, which can very easily grab a young readers attention.
In my opinion, the message of the book is that cats, and even people, can surprise you in their resilience. Just as the cat was able to go beyond her nine lives, we as people can do the same and surprise others. ( )